Word: barbershop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side door into the empty lobby of Cedar Rapids' Allison Hotel. Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace came through the main door. The drunk grabbed Henry's limp hand and cheerily pumped it. Wallace gave him a sour look, yanked his hand free, and retreated to the hotel barbershop...
Election returns were coming in. Roberts spotted the trend in a precinct report from the onetime "Bloody First" Ward, a Pendergast stronghold. "That's a barbershop on North Main," he said. "They used to vote about 385 to 6 for the machine. Look what they got - only two to one." It was soon clear that the election was in the bag for the Citizens Association, a loose fusion of anti-Pendergast Democrats, yeasty Republicans and independents, held together by the Star's backing. What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little...
...good university, he declined invitations to speak at Rotary clubs, could not bring himself to gladhand state politicos. He angered the faculty by polling the students to find out which professors they respected and which they considered dullards. Even when he joined a faculty barbershop quartet and tried to sing in harmony, New Mexicans decided that he just wasn't one of the boys...
...C.G.T.'s executive board submitted their resignations. Then they moved out of the C.G.T.'s, yellow limestone headquarters on the Rue La Fayette and the four lieutenants set up shop in a grey two-story building on the Rue Mademoiselle, flanked by a bakery and a barbershop. Jouhaux refused to take the top post. He may change his mind, but if he does not, the likeliest leader is small, dark, shy Robert Bothereau, 51, a metal worker and longtime Jouhaux follower...
Tall Ones and Trades. In private guise, Sam Breadon was a hospitable fellow, a genial server of long tall drinks. He liked to sing in barbershop quartets. He was a good guy, most baseball writers agreed; but he "would trade his grandmother if the price was right." In his way, he had a certain amount of sentiment for his ball club. Last year, when he flew down to Mexico, rumors spread that he was selling the Cardinals to Mexico's Pasquel Brothers. Sam denied it. Said he, grinning: "The Cards are not for sale . . . that is, [unless] some...